On: Reddit files to go public

[streamofdigits]

The main data point from the success of reddit is that quality interactions in large scale online platforms require an interest based user interface.

Other than that it is almost guaranteed now that its buggy (feels like its held together with tape) and ad-ladden overall experience will be locked-in and get worse (like it happened with facebook)

People might want to hedge their bets and look into open source lemmy and federated versions of the reddit concept https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

[danuker → streamofdigits]

I use the old UI, which is lean, fast even on my old laptop, and not buggy.

Fortunately I still have a setting for my account to do so. I would stop using it without this setting.